Re: GnomeRight

["Michael Glauche" <glauche plum de>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@tordata.se>
To: Chris Dodd <cdodd@tkc.att.ne.jp>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Samstag, 23. Mai 1998 17:48
Subject: Re: GnomeRight


>Chris Dodd wrote:
>> 
>> Hmm.
>> 
>> Well, I know some people are working on a decent FTP client to run
>> under Gnome (at least I think its supposed to be gnome compliant),
>> called LiteSpeed http://www.voxel.net/litespeed/.  The email addys
>> of some developers are:
>>                           rdutt@voxel.net, and matt@cgibuilder.com
>> 
>> Wouldn't it be good if you and the litespeed team could work
>> together to integrate this all into one great ftp program?  And, I
>> noticed that resuming a file transfer was on their TODO list.  Just
>> my opinion.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>
>Well...
>
>My intention isn't to make GnomeRight just another FTP program. It's
>going to be a tiny utility that let's you pause and resume file
>transfers. (Not all have a T1 line, you know). No matter if you modem
>disconnects, your kernel krasches (although it doesn't :-), you should
>always be able to resume file transfer. And it's also supposed to
>support HTTP.


Then why don`t use wget ? it can do http, ftp and can resume
downloads ... it can mirror, etc ... quite usefull tool ...

regards,
   Michael